# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Stale Bot Mode session references sent on startup

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These issues and PRs concern stale Bot Mode session references being re-sent on every startup and mislogged as rejected RPCs. The work involves pruning or fixing these stale references to prevent the repeated behavior.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #114827. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #114827 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-114827`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #114694: Stale session references are re-sent on every startup (minor)

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#114827: fix(desktop): stale Bot Mode session references stop being re-sent and mislogged as rejected RPCs on startup (#114694, salvage #114700)**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/bot-state.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/hide-bot-chats.test.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/plugins/hermes-bots/session-sweep.ts`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_session_hidden_rpc.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_session.py`
- **#114700: fix(desktop): prune stale Bot Mode session references**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `merged_via`; implication `superseded`; refs `5bb41cecefe8`, `#114827`, `#114694`, `#114700`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #114827 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-18`.